Daily Archives: November 21, 2015

NEW YORK (AFP) – Justin Bieber s new album has smashed the record for first week streaming on Spotify, the onlinemusic site said Friday. “Purpose,” the Canadian pop star s first album in three years, was streamed 205 million times since its release a week earlier, with 77 million of the streams ...

DUBAI: Jos Buttler hit the fastest one-day hundred by an Englishman to guide England to an 84-run win over Pakistan in the fourth and final day-night international in Dubai on Friday for a 3-1 series triumph. Buttler’s 52-ball 116 not out — his hundred coming off just 46 deliveries — ...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has denounced the “horrific terrorist attack” at a luxury hotel in Mali, warning that the violence is targeting peace efforts in the country. “The secretary general deplores any attempt to derail the implementation of the agreement” signed in June between rival factions in Mali, Ban’s ...

A rights group says nearly 400 Palestinian children ranging from 13 to 17 years old are currently being held in Israeli jails. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said in a statement on Friday that most of the children had been arrested by Israeli forces across the occupied Palestinian lands since the ...

Terrorists with the Takfiri group of Daesh have abducted 20 Shias from the Hazara community from a highway linking the Afghan capital, Kabul, to the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, Press TV reports. The kidnapping took place on Saturday, with Afghan officials saying that the victims had been taken ...

A Democratic congresswoman calls on the United States to stop the “illegal, counterproductive war” to overthrow the Syrian government and focus instead on defeating the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group. Appearing on CNN on Friday, Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii said the campaign to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is “illegal ...

The Syrian Air Force has conducted 114 sorties in less than a week, destroying some 450 terrorist targets in seven provinces, an army spokesperson says. “Since November 15, the Syrian Air Force has carried out 114 sorties and destroyed 447 targets in Damascus, Homs, Hama, Idlib, Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor and Lattakia provinces,” Syrian army ...

KUALA LUMPUR: President Barack Obama urged young people in Malaysia on Friday to reject the “terrible vision” that drove the Paris attacks, offering an alternative vision in which traditional cultures coexist with a diverse modern world. “You can set an example,” Obama told college-age youngsters in Kuala Lumpur. “Not just ...

A majority of Americans now support the use of ground troops against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria in the wake of the Paris attacks, according to a new poll. An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Friday shows that 73 percent of those surveyed support increased US ...